Gurvinder S. Virk
School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire
LS2 9JT, UK

This paper presents the activities
of the CLAWAR TN project to identify the status for the area of applied
robotics and how the traditional robotics industry can evolve to meet the
wider needs of industry, society and citizens of the future. The modular
philosophy that has been developed by the CLAWAR partnership using the concept
of the interaction space is presented. This identifies the different types
of inter-connections needed to design the components for achieving the connectivities
and functionalities required for the robotic systems for specific applications.
The results on the technical tasks carried out over the four years of the
project are summarized and the current and future works of CLAWAR are also
described.